FinTech // Client Project

Fraud Reviews:
35% Fewer False Alerts.

We built a practical FinTech solution combining streaming feature integrity, banded active learning, and traceable decision logs. The project delivered 35% FPR Suppression and 28% Load Removed.

Key Results RESULTS
35%
FPR Suppression
Older Rules
28%
Load Removed
ROI: 10 Weeks
12ms
p95 Response time
SOC2 ALIGNED

Trusted by teams building ambitious products

What We Set Out to Improve.

Industry
FinTech

Ready to grow card issuance requiring sub-second authorization gates.

How We Worked
Dedicated Product Team

ML Architect + Data Engineers + MLOps Lead embedded within the Risk division.

Goal
Day-to-day Efficiency

Suppressing noise without sacrificing fraud recall or audit-trail integrity.

What We Built
Streaming ML Platform

A practical solution designed around the client’s existing tools, teams, and day-to-day workflow.

What Was Getting in the Way.

The client’s older fraud system relied on static rule chains that failed to account for behavioral shifts during peak seasonal spikes. This delay generated a 35% higher false-positive rate than industry benchmarks.

The biggest issues were alert fatigue, customer churn, and compliance burden. The team needed a faster, clearer way to manage the work while keeping the right checks in place.

Alert Fatigue
High-volume noise created a 24-hour review backlog, delaying response during coordinated fraud waves.
Customer Churn
False declines on legitimate transactions directly eroded Merchant Lifetime Value (MLV).
Compliance burden
Lack of secure and traceable reason-code trails previously led to Risk Committee rejection of ML models.
The Solution

What We Built.

01
Streaming Feature Integrity
Automated sub-second behavioral workflows using contract-locked schemas to prevent feature drift.
Key details
Type Stream Native
Schema Protobuf Locked
Response time Sub Second
02
Banded Active Learning
Risk-banded review queues that feed analyst labels back into the store to refine model accuracy.
Key details
Loop Human In Loop
Feedback Active Labeling
Rollout Shadow Mode
03
Traceable Decision Logs
Every event is saved with contributing features and version IDs to provide a fully traceable trail.
Key details
Explainability SHAP Values
Persistence Write Ahead Log
Controls SOC2 Ready
Before and After

How the Workflow Improved.

Area
Before
After
Detection Logic

Static Thresholds

Isolated signals led to frequent blocks during legitimate consumer behavior shifts.

Behavioral Patterns

Sequence and peer-group anomalies detected in sub-second streaming windows.

Controls

Manual Justification

No consistent reason-codes. audits were dependent on disconnected analyst notes.

Audit-First Identity

Secure and traceable logs containing the exact feature state at the time of the decision.

Throughput

Batch Backlogs

Queues spiked during high traffic, causing delays in manual transaction approvals.

Stream-Native Scale

Maintains sub-12ms scoring regardless of transaction volume spikes.

Key Features

What Made the Solution Useful.

THROUGHPUT

Fast Feature Store

Shared Behavioral Features updated per transaction to ensure model-state consistency.

Business impact
Zero Feature Drift
Controls

Explainable AI (XAI) Gates

Decisions include contributing weights (Reason Codes) to satisfy regulatory requirements.

Business impact
100% Audit Compliance
EFFICIENCY

AI-powered Prioritization Routing

Intelligent queue prioritization ensures analysts focus on high-probability fraud waves.

Business impact
28% Load Reduction
Faster Delivery

How We Reduced Build Time.

Tested foundations helped the team spend less time on setup and more time on the parts that made this product useful.

What accelerated the work

4 reusable building blocks
01

Behavioral Identity Module

A tested starting point for behavioral identity module reduced repeated setup work.

02

Fraud Feature Store Module

Reusable work for fraud feature store module let the team focus more time on the client’s specific needs.

03

Day-to-day Monitoring Platform

This made it easier to add day-to-day monitoring platform without rebuilding common foundations.

04

FinOps Safety controls

A tested starting point for finops safety controls reduced repeated setup work.

Results

The Business Difference.

A straightforward before-and-after view of what changed for the team and their customers.

RESULT: Accuracy01

False-Positive Suppression

Contextual behavioral modeling eliminated noise while maintaining detection coverage.

Older BaselineRule-Heavy
Coretus Platform35% Lower
Outcome35% Noise Reduction
RESULT: OPS EFFICIENCY02

Analyst Queue Throughput

Accuracy routing enabled the existing team to handle 28% more volume without headcount lift.

BeforeCongested
AfterAutomated
Outcome28% Throughput Lift
RESULT: RELIABILITY03

Scoring Response Time (p95)

Streaming system design provides sub-12ms scoring, ensuring no impact on auth response times.

Target< 20ms
Coretus12ms
Outcome12ms p95 Response Time
Results35% Noise Reduction • 28% Throughput Lift
Trust and Control

How We Kept It Safe and Reliable.

01
Model Explainability
Decisions include SHAP reason-codes and policy-mapping for regulatory transparency.
COMPLIANCE READY
02
Data Privacy
Strict Removal of unnecessary personal data ensures all workflows meet SOC2 and GDPR requirements.
SOC2 COMPLIANT
03
Growth and Reliability
Cloud-based streaming platform ensures reliable scaling during flash traffic.
CLOUD NATIVE
04
Code and IP Ownership
Coretus provides 100% IP ownership of all models, workflows, and Reusable Modules upon project completion.
100% OWNED
Client Testimonial

In their own words.

Coretus didn't just tune a model, they introduced a governed fraud platform that reconciled our technical debt with regulatory reality. We suppressed noise by 35% in weeks, not months, providing the exact level of traceability required for board-level risk sign-off.

Turn Risk into a Valuable Asset.

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